Conley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Hill v. State (1982), Beed v. State (1980)
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Henderson v. Kibbe · United States v. Telfaire · Glover v. State · Wharton v. Bray · Green v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite the judge’s failure to excuse, Conley’s counsel accepted the twelve jurors who were ultimately seated; he had exhausted his peremptory challenges but he made no showing at all that he was forced to accept any juror against his wishes. In two cases exactly on point we found no reversible error when a peremptory challenge was used and the record failed to disclose that an undesirable juror was forced on the objecting party. Arkansas State Highway Comm. v. Dalrymple, 252 Ark. 771 , 480 S.W.2d 955 (1972); Green v. State, 223 Ark. 761 , 270 S.W.2d 895 (1954). In Glover v. State, 248 Ark. 1260 , 455 S.W.2d 670 (1970) the defense used some of its peremptory challenges to remove unacceptable veniremen, but the defense made a record that had it not been required to use all of its peremptory challenges, a particular juror who was seated would have been challenged. In Glover we found that the error had been preserved and reversed the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noel v. State“At Conley’s trial the court gave standard instructions on reasonable doubts and credibility of the witnesses. The victim testified that she was with her assailant for a period of approximately one hour, recognized his voice, and had an opportunity to see him. The defense counsel was able to argue to the jury the lack of accuracy and the weight to be given to her identification testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. State“First, the instruction contains comments on the evidence. This is a practice permitted in the federal courts but not in Arkansas. . . . Second, the instruction concerned the weight to be given to identification testimony, a subject not covered by the Arkansas Model Jury Instructions on criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.